Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-08

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CRYSTALS, and ant acid powders, and
brewers engines, and ammonia gas COM
pressors.
Here is the Mr.. Corless, who could not
run his engine in Philadelphia on Sundays
at the great exhibition, running for the
breweries. Here are patent icehouse
makers, malt kilrers, cOppersmiths, beer
! vents, maltine sirups, stopper companies,
! preserving solutions, patent Corks, rack
ing valves, ceralines which obvIate the
use Of any malt st all; wire cloth for
brewery floors, artesian well companies,
special insurance companies for brewers /;
the list of hop and commission merchants,
nearly all with foreign names, takes con-
siderable space. Here are quantity OF
faucet manufacturers, hop auxiliaries,
red wood tanks, bung manufacturing
companies, brewers engines, thermome-
ter makers, csrbOniZing machines,
brewers filters, patching barrelers,
generators. In short, the writer as well
as the reader despairs Of completing this
list of mercantile commodities, all as
sembled around the human gullet.
EDITORIAL ADVICE.
Let US now come to the Well-digested
information given to brewers and saloon
keepers, that they may fly from the wrath
to come. In the first place 1 will sketch
my friend, the editor. He is an English
man of most agreeable exterior, and he
can get in anywhere quickly. Everybody
connected with the brewing business
knows him thoroughly. He is said to
have fine fortune in his paper. He
shows US that on May 25, all the
brewers will have convention
in Baltimore, and he says: "These are
perilOus times for the brewing interest
| periloUs because q present prosperity is
apt to lull the trade into a false securit y
and policy, also because the enemies of
the trade are all the time vigilant and
persistent in their opposition. Prohibi-
ton, in all its forms of annoying attack,
continues to assail the trade, putting it
under degrading bonds and depriving a
! beneficial industry of its inherent rights. ="
We are informed that Senator Vest of
| Missouri, IS going TO test the cOnstitu-
! tionality of prohibition in Kansas. There
was 8 time when Missouri undertook to
| fog Kansas into it's principles, and it
would seem that Kansas is still plaguing
! Missouri by establishing large and whole
some towns on her soil. There appears
to be literary bureau to give brewers
and saloon keepers information about in
sidiOus prohibition.
TEN GALLONS APIECE.
In the United States it seems the con-
sumption of distilled spirits has increased
| from 100000 gallons in 1910 to 72,-
| 900, 900 gallons in 1886. In the interval
we have run up the consumption of win
! from 100000 gallons to 100000 gal
Ions, and of malt liquors from $4,000, 900
gallons to 642,0OO,00O gallons. Every
! body IN this country, therefore, male and
female, child and man, drinks ten gal
| Ions of stuff year. The editor cheer
fully reflects on this IS follows:
"TO the PrOnibitiOnist, the temperance
| fanatic, the mOrslist and the statesman
these figures ought to be stimulating to
reflection" Stimulating is the word.
He resumes: "The consumption of the
more Intoxicating liquors IS decreasing in
| both England and America; the con-
sumption Of malt liquors has increased
| thirty fold"
! In the next paragraph the editor be-
comes profound, and says: "In view Of
these encouraging facts the trade should
not neglect any opportunity of Impressing
the public mind everywhere that bev-
erage slightly stimulating, that is really
food as we'll as drink, is Indispensable to
the physical well-beIng of mankind"
The editor suggests. that the brewers
ought to begin TO educate the public
through the press. He says that
the Brewers Association ought to ap-
point q committee to exercise q Watchful
supervision over the journals of puOlic
information in regard to this one question
of their attitude toward the manufacture,
ETC., of malt liquors. Proceeding some
hot bo fnio
that Fthese are perilOus days for the
Prohibitionists. Intoxicated by success,
they are forcing men to reflect on the
fact that they are using their power des-
politically"
TIE EDITOR
assures US that the Rhode Islanders are
sick OF prohibition; that Maine has con-
frmed her prohibition by three fourths
vote; that Iowa has had 10000 majority
for prohibition; that Kansas has 5000
standing majority on the same side; that
prohibition hase Just been defeated in
Michigan, after a stubborn fight; that
Tennessee and Texas are dead set for pro-
hibition at the next election, etc. We
find that the bishop of Liverpool,
England, has accepted a present of $780,
900 from brewer. The bishop of Peter
borough, England, says that drink is not
the cause Contemporaries. 1t must be eat
ing. Governor Hill of New York, is said
to have rung the death-knell of prohibi-
ton. The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed high-hcense bill, putting fees up
to $500, and no license is granted for
less than SIS. We are told that the
philadelphia Puritans" have started q
movement against concert saloons. Della
ware has passed q high-license bill,
making $500 the fee, but it was killed on
the day of final adjournment. Massachu-
sets has put the license fee up to $1,000
for frst-class privileges. Several Illinois
towns have voted for prohibition. All
Sunday business is stopped in st. Louis.
The drug stores in Atlanta have been
raided for selling diluted whisky.
Mr.. TOVey tells US that Texas is
WILD ON THE PROHIBITION QUESTION,
and that Senators Coke, Reagan and
Maxey are all prohiOitionists. Prohibition
has extended to Canada, and was only de-
feated in Newfoundland by the casting
vote of the Speaker. Breweries are in
Creasing III this country at the rate of
about four for every month. In Mr.
Cleveland's city of Buffalo are over 210O
licensed saloons. In little Syracuse are
over 500. In Conkling's town of Utica
are over 43O. There are more than 900
licenses in Albany; nearly 500 in Roches-
ter; in the city of New York nearly $500,
and in Brooklyn over 5000.
Baffalo is at the head of the list, and
gives nearly 400 saloons to every 1000
people. A learned article appears on nj
trOgenous substance in beer wortS. We
find that German beer, especially Berlin,
suffers from heavy bacteria turpidity.
"Saracena," says the artist, "sre psrticu-
larIy prevalent" The parsffine casks